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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 14h

RIP to Salah Bachir, a titan of Canadian cultural philanthropy, an advocate for HIV research, and the former president of Cineplex Media. After suffering through years of medical complications, Bachir underwent MAID today, at age 71.

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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Re-upping this terrific profile of Quebec's brand-new premier by @mauraforrest.bsky.social.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New: Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre has named performing-arts leader Gideon Arthurs, most recently at Soulpepper, to lead it after years of financial turmoil and restructuring www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

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Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre names arts leader as CEO

Veteran performing-arts administrator Gideon Arthurs’s hiring follows a period of intense restructuring at the cultural centre

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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andrea did crucial work to centre women’s voices in Canadian music journalism + publishing. We last chatted a year ago, while she was in treatment, ahead of the release of Susan Aglukark’s memoir that she co-wrote. She was kind and curious as ever. A profound loss for Canadian music writing

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the story you gotta read to understand what is going on in Alberta. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By Eric Andrew-Gee

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A country with its elbows up faces separation threats on two fronts

In Alberta and Quebec, Canada’s national unity paradox hits home

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BREAKING: A BC Supreme Court judge has sided with Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, who operated an illicit-drug compassion club (Drug User Liberation Front), were convicted of trafficking, and challenged the constitutionality of Canada's drug laws. Trafficking section ruled invalid, convictions stayed.

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦 @smikooman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did you wonder just who would be impacted by Trump's 50% tariffs on Canadian fur, bone, horns and other animal products? Many artists from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities have been disproportionately affected.

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As tariffs hit art, Indigenous artists face frustrating roadblocks and a sputtering art market

Trade war with U.S. disrupts not just income stream, but hurts cross-border ties central to First Nations, Metis and Inuit creators

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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

every day is Eric’s Trip Day if you work hard enough (or if you are me)

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Sub Pop Records @subpop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

10 years of LVL UP's Return to Love! LVL UP are guitarists Mike Caridi and Dave Benton, bassist Nick Corbo, and drummer Greg Rutkin. The music itself grows from a shared melodic and experimental sensibility, as well as a nod to influences like Neutral Milk Hotel and Mount Eerie.

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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Putting aside all the critical arguments On Here about this best TV of the 21st century list, lmao at only qualifying True Detective's first season as worthy (while celebrating the entirety of the similarly anthological White Lotus) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century

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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's a story on the past, present and future of Vancouver's Nettwerk, the powerhouse indie music company that embraced technology – cue the synthesizer – from the jump Nettwerk has adapted to every technological shift since – including the algorithmic age. Now it's worth more than half a billion

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vish khanna @vishkhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1138! Rick White & Julie Doiron hear Kreative Kontrol ⬇️ 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e... 💰: www.patreon.com/kreativekont... ☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_ntXS3Bk vk: vishkhanna.com/2026/09/24/e... 🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna @bluefogrecordings.bsky.social

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What input did Therme or Live Nation have (if any) crafting the MZO that was eventually issued to bypass approvals for Ontario Place? We’ll never know. And somehow it took the government two years to decide those communications were privileged. #OnPoli

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"This goes way beyond Chris Hansen – the concept of public punishment, of the spectacle of punishment": I talked with PRIMETIME's Lance Oppenheim, the director of the moment, about how the road to Hell is paved with memes. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

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‘This goes way beyond Chris Hansen’: How Primetime’s Lance Oppenheim turned the tables on trash TV

The film dramatizes the rise and fall of NBC’s controversial To Catch a Predator reality series

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From its inaugural market to its "international" People's Choice Award, there is a clear pattern inside TIFF of introducing a new problem for itself instead of finding a solution to the challenges it already has. My take on an up-and-down #TIFF26: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

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TIFF 2026 exposed festival’s stellar cinematic taste, and worst institutional instincts

This year’s festival felt as if it was using a handful of exhilarating moments to paper over many, larger structural fissures and fault lines

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liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I loved this interview with Sweeping Promises about moving to Kansas, using their label advance to buy a house & turn it into an affordable studio for DIY bands, how they learn about new music from musickers crashing at their house, love of record stores & more www.patreon.com/CriticalList...

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Episode 24: Sweeping Promises | Critical Listening

Welcome back to another episode of Critical Listening, DIY Lifers edition. For our third installment of Listening Habits, our series where w

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 18/09/2026

I like the sad Beck records partially because i think it heightens the core Beck experience in contrast, which is to say the Beck that feels like he made a bet with the devil that before he dies he will find a word that rhymes with orange buried in a pile of Game Boy sound chips

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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now home to the great True History Brewing

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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New from me: 50% tariffs on artworks crossing into the U.S. are crushing Canada's art market – threatening the livelihoods of visual artists and the dealers, galleries, consultants + shipping companies that depend on them www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

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U.S. tariffs are throwing Canadian art sales into trade-war chaos

For decades, art freely flowed across the border, but that ended once Trump began his second term

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Judith Pereira @heypereira.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The June, 2024, heist of FACTOR’s funds, by someone who gained access to the non-profit’s Scotiabank account five months earlier, was one of the largest thefts in Canadian cultural history." @joshokane.bsky.social reports on the settlement. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

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Scotiabank paid music funder FACTOR $11-million in heist case settlement, documents show

Scotiabank, FACTOR had previously declined to reveal value of settlement stemming from $9.8-million theft from music funder’s account in 2014

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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This pretty much brings an end to the civil case over the heist that rocked the Canadian music industry. But there hasn't been any news in more than two years from the numerous law-enforcement agencies that have tried to investigate

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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Scotiabank paid music funder FACTOR $11-million in their settlement over the heist of $9.8-million from FACTOR's account Neither would reveal the value when I broke the settlement story in June. But it was buried in FACTOR's just-published annual report www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

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Scotiabank paid music funder FACTOR $11-million to settle heist case, documents show

Scotiabank, FACTOR had previously declined to reveal value of settlement stemming from $9.8-million theft from music funder’s account in 2014

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...

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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE

After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026

Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

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Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists

Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

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Alyshah Hasham @alyshah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Have you seen the giant bear statue near Eglinton and Don Mills that some people call Bearbraham Lincoln (or perhaps Abearham Lincoln). Well, it is now at the centre of a copyright lawsuit: www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

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Gift-redeem

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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Geese actually had a pretty chill response to our psyop story in their new Rolling Stone interview. They wondered the same thing! www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 10/09/2026

The family of a teenager injured by a car outside his Toronto school is suing, alleging the removal of a nearby speed camera contributed to the crash. According to the statement of claim, the 15-year-old suffered a traumatic brain injury, skull fractures and ongoing cognitive effects.

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

all these 9/11 remembrances reminded me of one of the most flabbergasting paragraphs I've ever read, which was somehow in a story about a Ben Kweller song

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Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Announcing finalists for the 2026 #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction— congratulations to Richard Kelly Kemick, Robert Moor, Trina Moyles, Julian Brave NoiseCat, and Dan Werb. $75K winner announced Nov 10 at the #WTAwards writerstrust.com/WestonPrize

2026 #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction finalists: Richard Kelly Kemick—Decadence, Robert Moor— In Trees: An Exploration, Trina Moyles—Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival, Julian Brave NoiseCat— We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning.

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